1. Exxon’s Star Shines Brightest Among Egypt’s Slew Of Mediterranean Awards

    ...ild-up immediately lying below the Messinian Salt.” BETTER TERMS              One reason Shell’s earlier modest discoveries were deemed uneconomic was that at the time Cairo was only willing to pay a fixed $2.65/mn BTU for domestic output. By 2014, and with investment from IOCs drying up, Eg...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 01
    Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2021
  2. Saudi Surprises Market With 1mn B/D Production Cut

    ...tput to barely 3mn b/d in the 1980s while other producers simply filled the void. As then-oil minister Ali Naimi told MEES in 2014 as Saudi Arabia was withstanding pressure to cut unless Russia participated, “If I reduce, what happens to my market share? The price will go up and the Russians, the Br...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 01
    Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2021
  3. Oman Fiscal Dilemma Shows No Signs Of Abating In 2021

    ...art 1). On paper, this amounts to around 75% of GDP – not particularly bad – but given years of low growth and perennial budget deficits since the 2014 oil price crash, the concern is that it will continue to grow to unmanageable levels. Oman’s economic outlook is growing increasingly grim, and an im...

    Volume: 64
    Issue: 01
    Published at Fri, 08 Jan 2021